Editorial
Medical research in the Rhondda valleys
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The South Wales mining valleys have made a major contribution
to medical research over the last 60 years. In 1936, the Medical Research Council (MRC) was asked by the Home Office and Mines Department to investigate the problem of pulmonary disease among coalminers, with particular reference to conditions in the South Wales
coalfield. At that time there were over 200 000 men employed at 250 pits in the Welsh deep mine coal industry. Today there are less than
2000 men employed in the now mainly opencast Welsh coal mining
industry, and only one deep pit is worked. The problem of coal
workers' pneumoconiosis (`black' lung) was extensive. Between 1931 and 1948 over 22 000 British miners were required to leave their work
because they had contracted pneumoconiosis, and 85% of them were
living in the small mountainous coalfield of South Wales.1
The high incidence of disease in the area had been found to be related
to the rank of coal
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